alongamento

Attested since circa 1300. From alongar (“to lengthen”) +‎ -mento.

• IPA^(key): [aloŋɡaˈmentʊ]

alongamento m (plural alongamentos)

1. an instance of lengthening (making or becoming longer)
2. stretching (form of physical exercise)
3. (phonetics) lengthening (sound change in which a phoneme becomes long)
4. (archaic) delay
   • 1370, Ramón Lorenzo, editor, Crónica troiana, A Coruña: Fundación Barrié, page 238:

     Desy gisárõsse ben de quanto mester auj́ã et, sen outro alongamento, forõ buscar al rrey Cástor et el rrey Polus

     first they outfitted themselves with everything they needed and, without further delay, they went searching for king Castor and king Pollux

• “alongamento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “alongamento” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “alongamento” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “alongamento” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.

From alongar (“to lengthen”) +‎ -mento.

• Hyphenation: a‧lon‧ga‧men‧to

alongamento m (plural alongamentos)

1. an instance of lengthening (making or becoming longer)
2. stretching (form of physical exercise)
3. (phonetics) lengthening (sound change in which a phoneme becomes long)
4. allonge (slip of paper attached to a document that is out of space)

   Synonym: alongue